European researchers have found a way to increase the amount antioxidents in tomatoes. By splicing genes from the Snapdragon flower into the tomato, not only do the anthocyanin levels incease threefold, but also turn the tomato purple. The generically modified tomatoes are said to contain antioxident levels that are comporable to bluberries and blackberries.
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~ Kin

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I came across a post today at ThatsFit.com that struck me with extreme interest.  The writer gives us readers a brief description of what foods should be avoided, such as raw food, nano foods, and even certain soy-based products.  There are also links to other external sources where you can read [...]

Here’s an interesting Today Show segment from this morning.

A couple of my friends organized a chicken nugget eating contest two weeks ago and today was the day where 6 wanna-be professional eaters met up at a local Wendys for the nugget showdown.  The winner received a year’s worth of bragging rights, hours of indigestion, elevated blood pressure, and a trophy a mother hen [...]

This needs no explanation.  Monkey waiters, need I say more?

And another one with more footage.

~ Kin

There’s a reason why your child is bouncing off the walls in the morning hours of the day.  I was watching the Today Show this morning before I left for work and there was a segment on the amount of sugar in breakfast cereals that many children and adults eat for breakfast.  In a new [...]

If you’re Asian, or Chinese in particular, then the White Rabbit candy should ring a bell.  When I was a kid, I didn’t care much for the miky candy itself, I was more interested in eating the edible paper that wrapped around it.

Well, it seems that the chemical melamine, has spread beyond the powdered milk [...]

Have your Milk Duds been tasting like, well, a dud lately?  If you notice the change, then you are not alone.  Hershey’s has reformulated their chocolate formula and has replaced the cocoa butter, which gives chocolate that smooth and creamy texture, with vegetable oil.  Due to this change, the products with the new formula can no [...]

Image:  Starbucks
Starbucks has recently started to serve healthier breakfast options.  While I do not know if this is a move to satisfy the needs of their health conscious customers, or is a way to curb their poor performance in the market, it seems to be a good strategy to reach out to current and future [...]

I haven’t been posting because my laptop started to act funny last week. Today it seemed to take its last breathe. While I did back up most of my files to an external hard drive…it looks like I won’t be able to recover a number of important files. I’ll see if I can [...]